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The biochemical and molecular spectrum of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1998
Tuchman M, Morizono H, Rajagopal B S, Plante R J, Allewell N M
Abstract excerpt
Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTCase) deficiency, the most common inherited urea cycle disorder, is transmitted as an X-linked trait. The clinical phenotype in affected males as well as heterozygous females shows a spectrum of severity ranging from neonatal hyperammonaemic coma to asymptomatic adults. The ornithine transcarbamylase enzyme is a trimer with three active sites per holoenzyme molecule, each of which is...
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